Crunch Time (album)

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Crunch Time
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 9, 1999
RecordedNovember 16 & 17, 1998
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length60:30
Label Milestone
MCD-9287-2
Producer Bob Porter
Hank Crawford chronology
After Dark
(1998)
Crunch Time
(1999)
The World of Hank Crawford
(2000)
Jimmy McGriff chronology
Straight Up
(1998)
Crunch Time
(1999)
McGriff's House Party
(1999)

Crunch Time is an album by saxophonist Hank Crawford and organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1998 and released on the Milestone label the following year. [1] [2] [3]

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Reception

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AllMusic's Richard S. Ginell said: "Not much is new here -- which may be precisely the point of the exercise -- and while these sessions do not quite rise to the truckin' heights of some other McGriff Milestone discs from this period, there is still plenty to groove to in these track". [4] In JazzTimes , Geraldine Wyckoff stated: "Crunch Time is classic Crawford/McGriff ... The sense of timing throughout this album and within these musicians is at the music’s essence. It’s the element which makes Crunch Time-and all of Crawford’s and McGriff’s music-so timeless". [6]

Track listing

  1. "Bow Legs" (Hank Crawford) – 6:31
  2. "It's All Good" (Lewis Lebish, Melvin Sparks) – 8:10
  3. "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" (Chuck Willis) – 5:43
  4. "Sandu" (Clifford Brown) – 7:09
  5. "Crunch Time" (Jimmy McGriff) – 7:12
  6. "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland) – 7:13
  7. "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Fred Rose) – 4:11
  8. "The Preacher" (Horace Silver) – 6:31

Personnel

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  4. 1 2 Ginell, Richard S.. Road Tested – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 317. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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